Walter Altherr

Altherr joined the Junge Union in 1961 and the CDU in 1965. In 1986 he became a member of the district executive of Kaiserslautern-Land. 1978 he took over the office of the local mayor of the municipality Mittelbrunn. In 1989 he moved into the district council of Kaiserslautern. In the 1990 Bundestag elections he was elected to the German Bundestag via the Rhineland-Palatinate state list, of which he was a member until 1994. Altherr was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1996 to 2006.

Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN 978-3-11-184511-1.